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Fire Protection Professional

TekWissen LLC

Houston, TX

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$59.35–$77.03
SKILLS
Acceptance Testing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bid Analysis, Biology, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Calendar Management, Construction, Construction Engineering, Construction Management, Contract Management, Contract Requirements, Customer Support/Service, Diversity, Economics, Engineering Management, Equipment Specification, Government, Hydraulic Engineering, Identify Issues, Leadership, Maintain Compliance, Mechanical Design, Mechanical Engineering, Mentoring, Multitasking, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Network Operations Center, Organizational Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Development, Project/Program Management, Pumps, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Requirements Management, Semiconductors, System Test, Systems Administration/Management, Systems Engineering, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Requirements, Time Management, Training/Teaching, Workforce Management
LOCATION
Houston, TX
POSTED
2 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Job Title: Fire Protection Professional
Location: Houston, TX 77001
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Major Responsibilities:
  • Plans, schedules, conducts, and coordinates detailed phases of engineering work in mechanical discipline in a project or staff group.
  • Performs work that involves conventional engineering practice but may include complex features such as resolving conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials and/or difficult coordination requirements.
  • Performs work using client Standard Application Programs (BSAPs).
  • Plans, coordinates, or prepares equipment or work specifications, material requisition, technical bid evaluations and award recommendations.
  • Coordinates engineering efforts in assigned areas between specialty and other engineering groups or disciplines, with the client, suppliers, and contractors and between other groups.
  • Assumes a lead technical role over other engineers or project subgroups for completing specific tasks as directed.
  • Communicates complex technical issues and recommends solutions to Supervisor and/or project management.
  • Supports function initiatives of developing Engineering Department Procedures (EDPs), client design guides, appropriate client Standard Computer Applications (BSAPs) and administrative practices.
  • Mentors designers and drafters by providing appropriate on-the-job training for their professional development.
  • Supports the creation of a work environment, supported by leadership, which fosters openness, trust, communication, teamwork, empowerment, innovation, and satisfaction.
Education and Experience Requirements:
  • Requires a bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10+ years of relevant work experience in the semiconductor, AI Datacenter and/or life-sciences / pharma industries.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
  • Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent from an accredited university or college (or international equivalent), with minimum 10 (ten) years related to fire protection systems in Semiconductor / AI Datacenter or Life Sciences / Pharma industries.
  • Capable of independently specifying fire protection systems, including identifying the most appropriate sprinkler system based on project needs and specifying the necessary fire protection equipment such as fire-water pumps and fire-water storage tank capacities to meet the fire water demand.
  • Ability to perform these calculations and hydraulics to come up with the fire water pipe header size.
  • Experience in wet pipe systems per NFPA 13" Standard for Installation of Sprinkler Systems, NFPA 14 (Standard for installation of standpipe and Hose system) & FM standards.
  • Experience in Fire-protection equipment such as pumps, storage tank, and deluge systems.
  • Experience in Cooling Tower Deluge System sprinklers in accordance with NFPA 214.
  • Knowledgeable in the testing requirements of a fire-protection system including acceptance tests as required and outlined in NFPA 13 and ensuring compliance to requirements of local regulatory authorities including AHJ (Authorities Having Jurisdiction). Ability to coordinate the regulatory approvals with owner, project team, subcontractor and relevant regulatory authorities.
  • Experience in managing engineering subcontracts with design and delivery per contract requirements.
  • Knowledge of codes and standards applicable to the design of mechanical systems including ASME, IBC, IMC, and NFPA.
  • Thorough knowledge of discipline engineering techniques, the design of engineered systems, and engineering and design calculations.
  • Thorough understanding of the roles played by other departments on projects including construction practices and the economics involved.
  • Able to troubleshoot issues in a field or job site setting confidently, and to provide instruction on how to resolve issues identified.
  • Demonstrated ability to cope with conflicting deadlines, frequent interruptions, and multiple tasks.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/

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